Shooters and Hunters: What's Your Best Ever Distance / Accuracy Personal Record?
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Impossible. Everything I have put here are just pictures from the internet. I never had guns at home. Maybe for big game hunting, some hunters could enjoy this powerful weapon. But hunting here is very expensive, it is a very expensive hobby.
Not to blame the equipment, but I did have a gunsmith tell me I was lucky if I got my lock to spark at all. He said I could get a L&R lock that would drop right into my Lyman trade rifle, but that lock would cost what I paid for the whole rifle!
Track of the Wolf is awesome and also very helpful.
If you're ever in the area, this is my favorite event each year. It's usually in OR, sometimes ID:
Pacific Primitive Rendezvous
www.pacificprimitiverendezvous.com
I am a European with probably a different outlook on firearms to those based in America, however growing up, two pieces of American fire power stood out. One through its impact watching the news as a 12 year old in 1991 and the other through its likeness being used in toy plastic cap guns.
The former is the A10 Thunderbolt, and the latter is the Colt 1911 which I think looks cool as f*ck.
My question as a non gun user, is this..
In an alternate universe I would turn up at the shooting range with a Colt 1911. How would this go down amongst other users?
I know little about the technicalities of firearms but am an engineer.
Genuinely interested.
The former is the A10 Thunderbolt, and the latter is the Colt 1911 which I think looks cool as f*ck.
My question as a non gun user, is this..
In an alternate universe I would turn up at the shooting range with a Colt 1911. How would this go down amongst other users?
I know little about the technicalities of firearms but am an engineer.
Genuinely interested.
Colt 1911s are very popular, you'd make a lot of friends at the range. Some people spend amazing amounts of money customizing them. Others, though, aren't fond of single-actions. But you would fit right in, they are very common.
The design must be solid if they are still popular even after over 100 years from the initial design.
Not sure about the other universes, but in this one, you can shoot from my bench any time.
Just watch out. The pansies shooting lesser calibers might splash their urine on you when you fire and cause them to soil themselves....
It was designed for military field use and has a reputation for reliability in the field, even if dirty (though you want to avoid testing that if you can).
300m man-sized silhouette with an M16 equipped with an iron post sight.
308 is what we use for these shoots. They are good out to 1200 yards but 1000 is pretty sweet for them. Biggest issues at this distance are wind obviously and mirage plays a huge part, actually shifts the target on you. We allow two sighter rounds at a 1000 yards and then count your next 15 shots. If you're in sync and not moving to much you throw down the 15 rounds reasonably quickly before the wind or mirage shifts, trick is they are only single shot rifles with no magazine so you have to load each round into the breach manually.
Good on you. I'm envious. I could shoot at that distance if I had a 900 yd-long barrel!
PS Can you own a mag fed rifle, like an old Enfield Mk4? Can you own a semi-auto rifle?
I put 3-4 deer in the freezer every year. I haven’t shot at anything more than about 90 yards away in years. Closest shot ever: about 9 feet. We’re about 1 month away from deer season and my daughter and I can’t wait.
I and my range sergeant were attending a "diverter" demonstration one day. I put two slugs, 12 ga, Remington 970 20", into the target, 50 yards, one hole, slightly oblong. I was asked to do it again. "Sorry, one trick shot only!" I was a fairly decent shot with any type of fire arm in those halcyon days but, putting a third round into the same place? I'm lucky but, not that lucky.
The foothills of the Missouri Ozarks is said to greatly resemble the rolling terrain of the Fulda Gap.
When I’m out on a ramble at my farm, occasionally an A-10 Warthog on a practice run will crest a rise so low that if I’d have been evil there would not have been time for much of a prayer.
I wave and sometimes the pilot wags his wings and he’s gone.
The entire fleet of A-10s is forty or more years old. We should make newer, better ones.
They're going to retire them
Air Force to start retiring A-10 Warthogs after a decade of legislative wrangling
Is this the beginning of the end for BRRRT?
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We’ve got a bunch of them in AR. And I’ve been lucky to have a good place to hunt.
The single shot is only for target match conditions but in answer to your questions, yes and yes but you would need a different category licence for semi auto (which I have).
In the 1970's and 80's shooting was my primary mission in life. (Mostly handgun, but significant rifle, and some shotgun.) I was better at it than anything else I ever did, before or since, by a large margin.
Lots of stories to tell from those days.
Never shot again after 1987 (for all practical purposes) until recently, when a friend invited me to his rural lake property for a grill out and some recreational shooting.
Given what time does to human bodies I was curious how a 35-year layoff might have manifested itself, so didn't want to only plink pop cans and etc. I wanted to actually measure it.
So, paper targets were brought along.
When using group sizes as a measuring tool, the rule is "three shots has a significant luck component; five shots is 95% reliable; and ten shots never lies"... So, ten shot groups were the contest, 25 measured yards the distance, and .22 rimfire pistolas the weapon.
We had so much fun the first time that we did it again the next summer, then a third time a few months later.
The last target is only the center that's been cut out, because the group contained a called flyer.
That first time I just wanted to see if I could remember which end of the barrel to point downrange; the second time I wanted to beat the previous year; and the third time I was determined to see if I could go under half an inch. (which, if the flyer is discounted, I did)
Lots of stories to tell from those days.
Never shot again after 1987 (for all practical purposes) until recently, when a friend invited me to his rural lake property for a grill out and some recreational shooting.
Given what time does to human bodies I was curious how a 35-year layoff might have manifested itself, so didn't want to only plink pop cans and etc. I wanted to actually measure it.
So, paper targets were brought along.
When using group sizes as a measuring tool, the rule is "three shots has a significant luck component; five shots is 95% reliable; and ten shots never lies"... So, ten shot groups were the contest, 25 measured yards the distance, and .22 rimfire pistolas the weapon.
We had so much fun the first time that we did it again the next summer, then a third time a few months later.
The last target is only the center that's been cut out, because the group contained a called flyer.
That first time I just wanted to see if I could remember which end of the barrel to point downrange; the second time I wanted to beat the previous year; and the third time I was determined to see if I could go under half an inch. (which, if the flyer is discounted, I did)
Fortunately/unfortunately, we were taught to spread our rounds so as to enlarge the hydro-static shock so our, police targets, were usually man sized. I strove for hits in the "kill zone" and a hand's width separation with the handgun. We strove for accuracy and not score. So I was never all that grand except with long guns. We'd often shoot at the end of shift for who purchased the coffee.